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This week, a letter from Hampton Commonwealths Attorney Anton Bell was made public. In it, the prosecutor referred to a stop initiated by former officer Joe Gutierrez as "extremely troubling

The special prosecutor called the video "disturbing" and unsettling, but found no actual laws were broken during the Windsor incident

No state laws were violated by the Town of Windsor Police officers who allegedly pepper-sprayed, threatened and assaulted a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during a traffic stop in December 2020.

In the video of the traffic stop, Army Lt. Caron Nazario was yelled at and pepper-sprayed by former Windsor Police Officer Joe Gutierrez.

The Commonwealth's Attorney's office said no state laws were violated by Windsor Police who allegedly pepper-sprayed, threatened and assaulted a U.S. Army second lieutenant during a traffic stop.

The family will be hosting a press conference to discuss and review what they consider inaction by the commonwealth. The conference will be held July 15, 2022 at 1 p.m.

The family will be hosting a press conference on Friday to discuss and review what they consider inaction by the Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney's office.

Cory Bigsby was already facing seven child neglect charges when a grand jury added 23 new charges. Most of them accuse the 44-year-old father of leaving his young children home on various occasions.

For decades, localities have pumped money into prosecutors' offices, allowing commonwealth’s attorneys to get higher salaries, more attorneys and paralegals. But officials haven’t done the same for public defenders, leading to widening pay gaps between the two sides of the courtroom.

Jaylin Avery is facing second-degree murder and gun charges in the July 2021 slaying of DeShawn Powell. Powell was working as a Papa John’s pizza driver when he noticed a man was assaulting a female co-worker in the parking lot. Powell tried to intervene and was fatally shot.